MOVIES: This Week's Movies | Aug. 24, 2012
The New York Times critics on “Premium Rush,” “Neighboring Sounds” and “Sleepwalk With Me.”
August 24, 2012
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The New York Times critics on “Premium Rush,” “Neighboring Sounds” and “Sleepwalk With Me.”
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Aug. 24 A Separation This intense, verbally combative movie from Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi is about a failed marriage, a father with Alzheimer’s and a chain of events that almost lands several folks in jail.
Which movies to see this weekend, Aug. 24 Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul’s superb documentary covers the 1990s investigation into the fate of rock footnote Sixto Rodriguez. “Searching” has emotional valleys and zeniths, and gasp-inducing turns, as old friends, fans and Rodriguez’s grown daughters are interviewed
Movies opening this week, Aug. 24 The Apparition Researchers (Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton) out to prove that paranormal occurrences spring from the minds of humans embark on an experiment. Compliance A fast-food restaurant manager takes a call from an officer who reports a woman is accusing pretty worker Becky (Dreama Walker) of theft.
Watching 3-D movies generally means suffering through two things: crappy plotlines that favor spectacle over substance and the need to wear some annoying, dorky glasses. Scientists may have solved one of these frustrations. (You might be able to guess which.)
Watching 3-D movies generally means suffering through two things: crappy plotlines that favor spectacle over substance and the need to wear some annoying, dorky glasses. Scientists may have solved one of these frustrations. (You might be able to guess which.)
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the movie studio behind “Kung Fu Panda” and “Madagascar,” said Monday that its films will be distributed by 20th Century Fox starting next year.The five-year …
DVD review: ‘Films of Fury’ none of that Chinese body-flying, butt-kicking attitude is missing in this amusing, eye-popping documentary based on the “Films of Fury” book by Ric Meyers, a World Martial Arts Hall of Fame inductee. An expert on genre movies in general, Meyers traces the Peking Opera origins of kung fu through the latest in CGI American-made pandas.
From the trudging of miners to the crowds of folk festivals, the Original mine yard has seen a lot of action over its century of existence.
Forget the Olympics. It’s all about The Hunger Games now